Hi people. It's a great pleasure to join this community. I have just discovered BitCoin and got instantly addicted to it. I am quickly getting familiar with the system. Doing some pool mining (30 Mhash only, LOL) but plan to increase.

Also, planning to make some BTC related project. Ideas are welcome. Have access to small to medium funding, IT and development resources (being a professional programmer myself). Reply or PM any time.

I knew about bitcoins, but very recently started dealing with them - I am active user of Chinese panda coin / MCC communities - and that is my primary hobby at the moment. Already enjoying the new world of e-currencies :-)

Spent the other night going through the entire transcript from the Pre 0.8 / 0.8 bitcoind blockchain split on the Dev IRC. Was some intense reading. Feel bad for Eleuthria, the night before he lost around ~1,500BTC from a problem during the upgrade of his pool and the next day he was one of the silent heroes who helped save our beloved currency by being the first to switch his pool over to the older 0.7 to resolve the split. And he lost a further 200BTC from that too

I keep thinking it'd be a good idea to do a whip-round for the guy, maybe 0.01 BTC each from everyone and we'de get him a nice treat for being so lovely

On a side note, I was doing some calculations and found something a little worrying, I was going to pre-order an ASIC until I established this...

Bonus points if you spot this bit where someone badmouths Slush an hour before he join the channel lol. Poor guy! We need more love for our pool masters

Edit2:

Just spotted my mistake;

If we look at the publicly known BFL ASIC pre-orders:(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89685.0)If I ordered the Mini Single SC for: £450My hash rate would then be: 30 GH/sthe total world hash rate at that point would be: 90,000 GH/s

So then I would have a 0.03% share of the hash rate. Earning just ~£15.00 per day.